"Strategic Air Command" on DVD!

Awesome movie

 

Is it on VHS? I think I saw it a number of years ago. Rented, I believe.

I have "Bridges of Toko Ri" on VHS...

 

It was on Netflix.

 

I was going to Mirror Lake Jr. High which was near downtown St. Petersburg. While in P.E. outdoors, the B-36 flew about a dozen passes over the school as the director was trying to get the planes shadow over the base that Jimmy Stewart was suppose to be playing at Al Lang Field. Spring training for the Cardinals.

 

I can hardly remember that movie but I do remember watching a B-36 taking off from San Diego with the rear set of wheels on the starboard truck with the brakes locked up. And also hearing one go over Seattle late at night in 1953. Dishes rattling in the cupboard long before it arrived overhead. I couldn't believe how long it took for it to pass over us. We could hear it for at least 20 minutes or more. I was working on the B-52 at the time and this time element (time warp?) has begun to take on a different look for me. Sixty three years ago and that B-52 is still going on and what I remember as everyday things that happened when I was working are now considered history. And to think, the young squirts at work used to call me Fossil but I never paid any attention to it.

 

Sounds great, now we need "A Gathering of Eagles" on DVD, too, to complete the SAC movies.

 

Thank you! Says it may not play on Region 1 (USA), but I have a region-free DVD player, so great.

 

A few minutes of the B-36 starting engines and taking off from the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGjyH2ulsCk